Sociology: Recent submissions
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Governing Human Well-Being: Domestic and International Determinants
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a comprehensive explanation of human well-being outcomes by analyzing the role of domestic and international political factors. The well-being outcomes under study are the building blocks of development, ... -
Doing Care, Doing Citizenship : Towards a Micro-Situated and Emotion-Based Model of Social Inclusion
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines the emotional, micro-situated dynamics of status inclusion/exclusion that people produce while caring for others by focusing, in particular, on non-conventional families. Grounded in empirical research ... -
Systemic risk, institutional design, and the regulation of financial markets
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Following the recent financial crisis, regulators have been preoccupied with the concept of systemic risk in financial markets, believing that such risk could cause the markets that they oversee to implode. At the same ... -
Childhood and Schooling in (Post)Socialist Societies: Memories of Everyday Life
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores childhood and schooling in late socialist societies by bringing into dialogue public narratives and personal memories that move beyond imaginaries of Cold War divisions between the East and West. Written ... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This volume brings together both academic and institutional perspectives to examine the production, use and contestation of indicators in global governance. It provides a unique and comprehensive guide to the latest research ... -
International Development Organizations and Fragile States: Law and Disorder
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most. The existence of a state with an effective ... -
Tangled governance : international regime complexity, the troika, and the Euro crisis
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Tangled Governance addresses the institutions that were deployed to fight the euro crisis, re-establish financial stability, and prevent contagion beyond Europe. The author addresses why European leaders chose to include ... -
Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents the evolution of the field of foreign policy analysis and explains the theories that have structured research in this area over the last 50 years. It provides the essentials of emerging theoretical trends, ... -
Demanding Energy: Space, Time and Change
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited collection critically engages with an important but rarely-asked question: what is energy for? This starting point foregrounds the diverse social processes implicated in the making of energy demand and how these ... -
Generative Conversations for Creative Learning: Reimagining Literacy Education and Understanding
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book builds on conversations between the author educators and other experts in the field, including authors, illustrators and teachers, to explore the benefits of discussions around quality literature within a classroom ... -
Rethinking Taxation in Latin America: Reform and Challenges in Times of Uncertainty
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This study of taxation in Latin America takes a novel approach to the subject, using a framework that posits three dimensions for studying taxes—historical, relational, and transnational. The book argues that: first, ... -
International Scholarships in Higher Education: Pathways to Social Change
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores the multiple pathways from scholarships for international study to positive social change. Bringing together studies from academic researchers, evaluators and program designers and policymakers from ... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Survey Research
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This handbook is a comprehensive reference guide for researchers, funding agencies and organizations engaged in survey research. Drawing on research from a world-class team of experts, this collection addresses the challenges ... -
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of ... -
Creative Selves / Creative Cultures: Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book addresses and demonstrates the importance of critical approaches to autoethnography, particularly the commitment that such approaches make to theorizing the personal and to creating work that embodies a social ... -
The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book explores our ethical responsibilities regarding health in general and disabilities in particular. Disability studies and human enhancement stand out as two emerging areas of research in medical ethics, prompting ... -
The Academic World in the Era of the Great War
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book examines the ways in which scholarly expertise was mobilized during the First World War, and the consequences of this for the inter-connected academic world that had developed in the late nineteenth century. ... -
Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History: A (Dis)United Kingdom?
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars to evaluate the viability of four nations approaches to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It recognises the separate ... -
Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book explores the experiences of Indigenous children and young adults around the world as they navigate the formal education system and wider society. Profiling a range of different communities and sociolinguistic ... -
Inter-Regional Relations and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This edited volume examines contemporary relations between Europe and Asia through the prism of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). ASEM is an informal forum for dialogue and cooperation between 53 partners from both regions. ...
